" It's a book that says the same thing almost all the other books in the world say," continued the old man. " It describes people's inability to choose their own Personal Legends. And it ends up saying that everyone believes the world's greatest lie." " What's the world's greatest lie?" the boy asked, completely surprised. " It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie. "